Tag Archives: Interest Rate

While the state of the market has made purchasing a home more difficult, military servicemembers—both past and present—face additional challenges such as frequent relocations due to changing orders.

For the third time in a row, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised the nominal interest rate by 75-basis points at the conclusion of their scheduled two-day meeting to a rate of 3.00-3.25%. This marks the highest ...

It’s no secret that the combination of rising home prices along with a trend of increasing interest rates have made buying the typical single-family home much more expensive, if not completely unaffordable for many.  According to Joint Center for Housing Studies ...

The confluence of market forces that are currently weighing on the market is shaking up long-term forecasts. Here’s why Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan thinks “it’s unlikely the economy will avoid a modest recession.”

The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University takes a look at a few key datapoints, which give a better picture of how the market is faring as we near the year’s halfway point.

Three-quarters of a point. This is the amount the Federal Reserve chose to raise the nominal interest rate by citing the need to combat the highest rate of inflation since the 80s.  To put that another way, this is the ...

Wages are up, but homebuyer budgets have remained flat over the past three months, meaning the market is seeing its slowest growth rate in two years.  This information comes to us from a new analysis by Redfin which found that ...

Mortgage rates have surpassed 5% lately, due in large part to increases to the federal interest rate by the Federal Reserve who in addition to raising the rate twice this year, is expected to have further increases for the foreseeable future. ...

No matter what you call it, the conflict in Ukraine is creating worldwide macroeconomic events that will trickle down to every segment of the economy over the course of the year.  Knowing this, the Economic and Strategic Research Group (ESR) at ...

The Federal Reserve raised the nominal interest rate on Wednesday, for the first time since 2018, citing factors such as surging inflation and the growing military conflict in Ukraine.